Hi this is Julie with beadaholique.com and I want to show you how to make the
Mandy earring and bracelets set which is an exclusive kit from beadaholique.com
I've actually got several color variations here
each kit will be one color way and you'll get enough ingredient to make a
bracelet and a matching pair of earrings. I've got green
blue
purples
and this golden brown. Now the green, the blue and the
purple use silver findings
and then the brown one uses gold
These are really fun sets. I'm going to show you how they work. Memory wire is great. It
just what it sounds like it has a memory to the wire so it holds it's shape
and what you can do is
wrap this on your wrist
it's really fun
very light weight, very comfortable to wear and it really is one of those pieces where
one size pretty much fits all
take it off
set it down and you'll see it has retained it shape
you'll notice these little decorative accents on each of the these which is just a little
dangle
and then you can make
a pair of earrings which comes in the kit as well
I want to you what comes in a kit
so you you'll choose your color way and you'll have all the wire and beads
for it
You'll get an entire strand of 4 millimeter
round beads
an entire strand of 6 millimeter round beads
and then you'll get a couple tubes of beads. You're gonna get these pretty
ones which are silver lined crystal
and then you'll get this bead mix
you're gonna get some memory wire
it's gonna come pre cut for you. So you'll fill up the entire wire. Memory wire is
very tough
so you would not ever want to use your normal cutters on it. It will most likely
destroy your cutters if you try to use it with it. It's super tough. You use special
memory wire cutters if you were to try to cut it
but we've gone ahead and pre cut that for you
and then you're gonna get four head pins
8 eye pins and two earring hooks
In terms of the tools that you're going to need is a pair of cutters. We're
not going to cut the memory wire with it. We're gonna cut
the eye pins and the head pins
you'll need a pair of round nose pliers
and a pair of chain nose pliers
and that is it
so I want to show you how to make this project from start to finish. I'll show you the
the earings and the bracelet
so first off
my favorite part
is spilling out all of the beads
because you know what your bracelet to be this random assortment of beads
I actually suggest you just put all your beads into one big pile on your work
surface
We have a lot really wonderful beads and we'll start by making
the earrings
so if you see example right here we've got one of the large beads on a
head pin
we've got three large beads on eye pins and then we have a small bead
on an eye pin as well. So we're gonna start by making those because we have our
full selection here. We wouldn't want to make them at the end because you might end up
with only one of let's say this dark bead or one of the light bead. If you wanna make
a matched set you want to put your beads
to begin with for the earrings
I'm going to follow the same pattern I did before
two of these pretty dark
do
two of the
little bit lighter
and even lighter than that
blue beads and then for the top one
you can pick whatever you want, you don't have to
follow what I did
here, you can
choose your own but
let's go with that selection right there
let's go ahead and make our earrings
so first off
find one of your head pins
it's appropriately titled, it has a head at the end, it doesn't have a loop
put your large bead on there
now we're gonna make a simple wire loop. You can do this one of two
ways. You can just bend the wire
with your finger so it's at an angle
take your round nose pliers
grip it
bend the wire up
over the top nose
rotate your pliers
and complete your loop just, pull it
into a nice little loop right there
where your wire criss crosses is where we're going to cut
and there we go
I'll show you the other way of doing it
basically the same technique
you just don't use your finger to bend that wire. Take another
head pin
and instead of just using my finger to bend the wire. I'm going to grip the
wire with my chain nose pliers
and bent it
and the same process
wrap it over
the top nose
rotate your pliers
and complete the loop
and snip it
where it meets
now I'm gonna go ahead and finish one earring and you'll know to just repeat the
steps to finish the second earring even though I've started
that little loop for you
I'll need four more
eye pins and an earring hook
put these aside
because you'll just make those for yourself after you see how to do it this
one time
So onto
the eye pin
place a large bead
again you can use your pliers
or you can use your fingers
I personally like using my fingers
we just bent that
grab it
up and over
rotate
where they criss cross
you're going to go ahead and cut it
now you want your loops to face the same direction
so mine do you on this one, sometimes they will, sometimes they won't. If
you're really careful they will every time but
if you've done a bit of beading you'll know that sometimes that doesn't happen
if your loop are ever not facing the same direction
I can tell this one here is not going to
I'll show you how to really easily correct that
I've got one facing one way, another facing another way
I'll grab it
with one plier. I'm using a round nose as a chain nose right now
grab the other loop with my chain nose
gently bend it
until they're going in the same direction
building my earring here
the last one, small little one, I'm going to show you the technique again with the plier
just bent it
make your loop in
the same fashion
so now
straighten this one out
that looks really good. So now we're ready to assemble our earring
so simple wire loops are fantastic
because you can open them the same way you would open a jump ring so
we're not going to stretch it out, we're just gonna twist it open
link onto it a simple wire loop
with another beaded segment
and twisted back it in place
and then walk our way up to the other side of the bead
twist it
link on another one
close that. You're basically making yourself a beaded chain
go to the other end
open it
link it on
close it up
All we have to do is apply our earring hook now. Do the same thing
open it
link on your earring hook
and close it up
there
we have to be really pretty little dangling earring
You would do that same process to make your second earring
I'll take these beads, put them aside
because I don't want to accidentally incorporate them into my bracelet
so now
remembers I said that we had these little dangles
at the end of our
memory wire bracelet. I'm going to create those right now too
and put them aside until I need them later again just so that I can pick out
the choice beads and I don't accidentally used something in the
main body of the bracelet that I wanted to use as a dangle
you've got
another couple head pins and I think I'm going to choose
these beads right here. It can be which ever beads you want. You can actually
even put a little seed bead on top of it
you'll have extra beads so don't worry if you want to stack a couple here
we're again going to make a simple wire loop
up and over
rotate
pull around
where they cross
is where you're going to cut
set that aside. I'll make one more, one for each end
You'll get the hang of this once you make a few simple loops
it'll really comes easy to you. It's just a little bit of practice to begin with
If you ever need to straighten them out remember it's just wire. It does bend
I'll set those two guys aside for now and now I'm gonna make my bracelet
so you'll see in this particular mix
there's these little things called bugle beads
you're not going to use them for this particular project
They're not gonna fit very comfortably on the memory wire so just ignore them
you'll have them left over for another project at a another time
so memory wire
you'll see we've got the ends and we know we can't cut them
so what we're going to do is create a little simple wire loop
at
the end
we're just going to do at one end to begin with. Grab the tip
with a little bit of strength, not a lot but memory wire is pretty tough
we're just gonna rotate it
away from you or in front of you, whatever's most comfortable
there we go
we're just making a loop
make sure your loop is as close as you can get it
and that's going to be fine
so that is the end
this is going to be our starting point
and we're gonna thread our beads onto this. Just pretend that this piece of wire
here
is a needle and we're going to pickup
a random assortment of beads and that's why I've scattered them all on my work table to
begin with
so I'm just going to pick up. I'm
not really gonna pay attention because if I did pay attention I would try to
put them in a pattern which is not what I want for this
I just want to put on a few beads onto the wire
just keep collecting them
scoot them down
I'm trying to not put the same beads right next to each other
now when you're ready to for them to go down to the base where you want them
to scoot down
go ahead
make sure your memory wire is not
kinked up here
there we go
the easiest way I found to do this hold the
top end of your memory wire
hold the bottom end
like the slinky
shake them on down
and then there's going to right down to the base
and they're gonna stop because you created that little loop
go ahead and put on a few more again in just a random pattern
one tip is
try to not put all your big beads on to begin with
try to space them out
so I've got a few more beads here. I'm going to shake them down
I'll show you how this is looking
see I did a big bead here
a big bead here and I waited a little bit before I did another one
so just put them on I would say once every inch or so, every
three quarters of an inch, every inch and a quarter, every inch and a half
whatever you want. You could have a segment that there's three within an inch
but just try to not put them all on
to begin with otherwise you might end up
with not enough at the very end
so I'm gonna keep doing this, keep adding my beads in no
particular pattern
until I get within half an inch
of the end here and I'm going to show you how to finish off this bracelet
as you can see I've almost finished my beading here
You can see how I've staggered the beads. You can't really do whatever you
want. You're gonna have a lot leftover which is really fun. You'll be able to use these for
another project. That's why you don't have to be too concerned with the placement
of every bead and that you're gonna run out or anything like that
so I've got about an inch here left. I'm going to put on a few more
same process that you've been doing the whole time
I'm not
quite
I'm between a quarter and a half of and inch. I'll do
a little bit more
this can be the tricky part. You just want to
estimate basically how much are you gonna need to loop around to make
another loop but you don't wanna make it too tight
where you're struggling with beads interfering
It's really a little over a quarter of an inch that you wanna leave
about like that
we're not going to cut this at all
We're do the same thing we did on the other side. Take the end tip
grasp it between the two noses of our round nose pliers
rotate it
turn it into a nice loops
and that is going to stop our beads from falling off. See we've actually completed the
bracelet at this point
now what you can do is an added touch
if you don't want that loop to be facing one direction you can take your
round pliers
bend it back a little bit
so it's more like it's coming straight out of the beadwork. I'm going to do this on
the other side as well
Now we're going to take these two dangles that we made at the beginning of this project
we're gonna open simple the simple wire loop the same way we would open a jump ring
link it on
to that little loop we made at the end of our bracelet
and then we're going to close it
do that on the other end as well
and we're going to close it
and now we have completed
our set. We've got our earrings
we made the one in the video, you'll make the other one but here is the completed set
Then you've got your pretty bracelet and you have this pile of beads left over as well
so I hope you've enjoyed this video. This is an exclusive kit called the Mandy
earring and bracelet kit by beadaholique.com and you can find it and other kits
on beadaholique.com
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